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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] network device renaming sysfs fix
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 07:40:14 -0700
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:37:24 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> The class_dev kobject name is 20 chars and IFNAMSIZ is 16, so the solution
> needs to truncate if new_name is not null terminated (all 16 chars long).
> 
> This seems like the best approach:

Patch applied, thanks everyone.

Can't the device name also change via netlink messages?
If so, do we handle that case properly?